Meat Cutter

**About Us**:
Summerhill Market is a boutique grocery store chain in Toronto that specializes in scratch-made prepared foods and on-trend ingredients. Our stores go above and beyond a typical grocery store by offering an extensive rotating selection of ready to eat gourmet meals, freshly baked goodies, and curated hard to find groceries.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our growing team and help elevate our brand to the next level. Summerhill Market is an industry trend setter, and we are looking for individuals who are passionate about food and executing quality production.

Summerhill Market is looking for a **Meat Cutter/Packager/Butcher** to join the Meat Production team at our **Commissary** location.

**Early morning shift and evening shift available.**

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Cutting a variety of types/cuts of meat with accuracy, safety and precision to prepared to be sold at our retail store locations or to be used by our Culinary team
- Preparing, slicing, wrapping, weighing, packing and pricing meat products
- Performing quality checks/audits to ensure all meat is up to company standards
- Maintaining cleanliness in the production area and ensuring compliance with food safety standards
- Working closely with the Meat Production Manager and other Meat Cutters to accurately track inventory
- Being a team player and helping your team members across the store as needed
- Adhering to all company policies, procedures and practices including health and safety, pricing, and loss prevention

**Skillset Requirements**:

- Passion for food - you are a true foodie at heart
- Quality driven with strong attention to detail
- Able to meet production targets
- Being an effective and positive communicator - having great listening skills, patience and knowing how how to work in a collaborative team
- Previous grocery or food industry experience along with a Food Safety Handlers Certification is an asset
- Ability to use various equipment to cut, weigh and package meat
- Flexible availability to work morning, evening, and weekend shifts as required with the ability to accommodate various shift coverage on short notice (Please note that you will be assigned to work either the day or afternoon shift)
- Maintaining Health and Safety Standards as defined under the Health and Safety Act
- Comfortable working in a cooler environment in coolers/freezers
- Physically fit; comfortable standing, walking, bending, and lifting up to 50lbs
- Good manual dexterity; good knife handling and equipment operating skills
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred

**Perks**:
If this sounds like the role for you, we offer some pretty cool perks
- Weekly pay
- Awesome employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Employer paid benefits for all full-time employees
- Dynamic workplace culture that promotes collaboration, internal training/development, diversity & inclusion and recognizing, rewards & celebrates employees
- Easily accessible locations
- Complimentary work swag (your Summerhill Market work shirts are provided)

**Equity Statement**:

- At Summerhill Market, we are an equal opportunity employer that values and encourages diversity in the workplace. We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status, disability or any other characteristic protected by local law. Should you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate._
- The purpose of this document is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for this position and is not an exhaustive list. Duties, assignments, and other responsibilities may differ for similar positions based on business needs of each location._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Discounted or free food
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- Store discount

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift

**Experience**:

- Grocery/Food Industry: 1 year (preferred)
- Meat/Food Handling: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person